"Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news."

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"Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news."

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"I still ask myself why did you watched the film Paranormal Activity the all parts or the film "The VIsit" 2015. Both were home made and not big deal even stupid, you even watch football + you play one game over and over and over, you play stupid games + you watch stupid stuff and after all you still ask yourself why you are stupid. The answer is somewhere here, search it!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Media, Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"The agenda of the Media is not to inform you, they don't care about you, they are trying to show you the truth. There are some intelligent Christians but they can't find them and put on the air ...for instance me."

Patience Johnson, Nigerian Author

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"Nowadays the thing which is going to help us in hard times are the books/films... movies.... series... they are filled with such tragedy and horror and everything which you are going to see in real life."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Media, Celebrity, Truth, Social

"The news is glorified gossip."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"The media made the masses to find not-so-skinny women appear not-so-beautiful - in the eyes of the remote holder."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera-and bills to pay."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Media, Truth, Work, Identity

"Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That's why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Media, Celebrity, Guidance, Choice, Success

"When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made."

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"Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate."

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"You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt."

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"You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit."

Economy, Order

"The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child."

Money, Truth, Negative, Country

"The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice."

Beauty, Laws, Practice, States

"When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line."

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"Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news."

Media, Day, News, Now

"A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money."

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